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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson has moved on to the following round of Q College as she vies for her LPGA Tour card.
Davidson needed to present amongst the discontinue 95 golfers at Rancho Mirage in California this week all the map by the LPGA Q-Sequence: Pre-Qualifying Stage.
After ending with a closing round of 71 (1-below), her four-round total used to be 284 to present tied for forty second.
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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is shown at the pre-qualifying stage of the LPGA Q-Sequence. (Riley Gaines/X)
Davidson now strikes on to the qualifying tournament, which will most probably be held at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, Florida, on Oct. 15-18. From there, if Davidson finishes amongst a definite different of golfers all any other time, she will come to the closing qualifying tournament held in December in Cell, Alabama.
Davidson shot 72, 72, 69, 71 in her four rounds this weekend to present 4-below par.
The winner of the tournament, Ashley Menne, an newbie, used to be 16-below par after taking pictures 4-below (68) on the Dinah Shore Match Course, the same route Davidson shot 1-below on Sunday.
Davison, who with regards to certified for the U.S. Girls folk’s Open this twelve months, has resulted in controversy all the map by the sport, in particular after comments about athletes who complained about competing against trans athletes contend with herself.
“I is no longer any longer going to ever understand athletes who blame a transgender competitor on their very cling athletic screw ups,” Davidson wrote on Instagram honest no longer too lengthy ago while working in direction of for Q College. “Whilst you occur to don’t rob accountability on your screw ups then you for sure is no longer any longer going to ever really be valid ample to salvage it.”
Davidson moreover spoke out after the NXXT Girls folk’s Professional Tour announced lend a hand in March that eligible participants needs to be a “biological feminine at initiating” in exclaim to compete in events.
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is shown at the pre-qualifying stage of the LPGA Q-Sequence. (Riley Gaines/X)
“Effective instantly, I really safe been removed (banned) from the following 3 NXXT tournaments that I already signed up for and been current to play,” Davidson wrote on her Instagram Reviews at the time.
“They modified their policy mid season, after me signing up already and being 2nd in Player of the twelve months streak.”
Davidson won the Girls folk’s Traditional on Jan. 18, which marked her first victory in additional than two years. It moreover build her in be troubled to salvage an Epson Tour exemption at the tip of the season, which is the respectable qualifying tour of the LPGA.
Then all any other time, the NXXT Girls folk’s Professional Tour confronted predominant backlash for Davison’s participation, and in command that they modified the tips that effectively banned her from future competitions.
“The NXXT Girls folk’s Professional Tour’s policies, in particular touching on gender, safe been formulated in alignment with those of the LPGA and USGA. This system is basic in keeping the integrity of our partnership with the LPGA and guaranteeing a fair and fixed aggressive ambiance,” an announcement from the Tour read at the time. “When Hailey Davidson joined the tour, she complied with these policies by providing well-known documentation, along side validation from the LPGA and USGA, which moreover facilitated her participation in the 2022 Q-College.”
Meanwhile, the LPGA currently has an inclusion policy for transgender athletes who undergo surgical procedure after male puberty, citing that transgender athletes safe an “avenue to membership and opportunity to participate in events, and so that that you must well order pretty competition for all members and participants.”
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“An applicant for membership or entry valid into a tournament that has gone by gender reassignment from male to feminine after puberty have to name herself all the map by the application/entry route of and supply proof of gender according to this Policy,” the LPGA Tour says. “Failure to assemble proof of gender when gender has been reassigned, and to conform with the route of and procedures region forth in this Policy, can lead to disqualification from eligibility for membership and/or entry valid into a tournament.
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“If there is a staunch demand as to the eligibility of any applicant, along side by sponsor exemptions or qualifiers, the LPGA shall safe the factual, inner its sole discretion, to require such athlete to substantiate her transitioned web site according to this Policy.”
Fox Recordsdata’ Ryan Gaydos and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this portray.
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